Peaceful Parenting For A Peaceful World

Welcome to the Attachment Parenting Group for Clovis, Cannon, Portales, and surrounding areas!

Our Main Goal

is to provide a support system for those who already practice Attachment Parenting, and to educate our communities on the importance of love being the foundation for raising children.

Dear Members,

I regret to inform you that I will be discontinuing the Attachment Parenting Group. I had so many dreams and aspirations for the group and have felt as if I have failed myself and all of you. I never knew when I started the group that within the first year I would be adding another child to my family. Expanding our family, has added a whole list of new duties for me, as well as my oldest child hitting school age. As Attachment Parenting families, I feel that it is our it is our job, duty, and right, to put our families first. At this time I feel that my efforts and time need to be dedicated to being more emotionally available to my children, as well my physical time. Being a mother comes first. Patrick and I are starting the grand adventure of home school, and I feel that I need to be available to him in time, and dedication to his education. Norah is going on 1 years old, and with that comes a new set of responsibilities as well, I feel I will be extremely busy with the two. The group is just too much responsibility for me to handle alone right now, and I need to focus on my children.

I hate to do away with the group, I do love having it, but it has never been what I had wanted it to be. I want you all to know that this is only temporary, and I will be back. I know some of you may not be here when I start it back up, and that saddens me. My hope for the group is to come back much stronger and better than it has been, and in a few months time my hope is that this will be a reality. I hope you all can understand my reasons for doing this, and know that it deeply saddens me to do so. It has been a pleasure to know all of you, and your children. I have loved seeing all of the children grow, and new ones be born. I will miss seeing you on a regular basis.

With that said.....there will not be an Attachment Parenting Meeting for August. I will still maintain the site, facebook, and myspace pages with community information, and I would love to continue sending out things occasionally that are AP related if everyone is okay with that.

I would also like to remind all of you that Jami has started a Breastfeeding Support Group here in town, and I encourage you to participate in that if it is something that you are interested in. Meetings are on the 3rd Monday evening of the month.

I want to thank you all for your participation, your input, stories, and time. I know as mothers and wives our time is valuable, and I appreciate you taking the time once a month to hang out with me. I sincerely hope that everyone enjoys the rest of the summer, and that everyone remains healthy and safe. If you have questions, please feel free to contact me. Thank you ladies. All my love.

Attachment Parenting is for entire families, not just mothers. Fathers,grandparents,

aunts and uncles are all encouraged to participate. AP does not discriminate, it does not care whether you are poor or wealthy, it does not care what color you skin is, it does not care about your past. AP is love, kindness, patience, understanding and so on. AP is about teaching our children some of these wonderful qualities, not only through guidance, but by example. You can practice Attachment Parenting even if you do not want to practice all of the aspects of the name. AP is not just this or that, all or none. AP is about your child and their needs, emotionally, physically, and mentally. You can nurse but not co~sleep, you can baby~wear but not cloth diaper. These things are just the physical of AP, the core motive with Attachment Parenting is to create well adjusted, independent, free thinking, imaginative, respectful, happy, loving, caring children who know honor and empathy, and can grow into healthy, well adjusted adults to take on the world. To learn more about Attachment Parenting Click on the tab What is AP?

Make sure you check out our Calendar of events for scheduled Playgroup locations and times. If you think that you would like to Host a playgroup in the future, please contact me through email or phone.

Please take the time to Contact Us and give us your email, so that we may be able to send you the latest in research and news, as well as reminders of meetings

The Attachment Parenting Group is now taking donations of gently used outdoors toys/games/equipment. Looking for donations of balls, bats, gloves, frisbees, etc. for outdoor events and playgroups. If you would like to give us your gently used backyard items please call 575-763-9027 or contact us at ap4nm@yahoo.com

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